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Japan's political parties were as rattled as if the Emperor had suddenly reclaimed his forsaken divinity. Soka Gakkai, a society of Buddhist laymen, already holds 15 seats in the 250-member upper house, plus some 4,000 seats on local councils. Soka Gakkai (the Value-Creation Society) is more than just another party; it is a militantly organized, crusading sect vaguely combining Buddhism with left-wing reform or perhaps revolutionary politics, and its confessed ambition is to convert Japan and then the world...
...Eisenhower's staff in World War II as a WAC officer-cryptographer, later studied law at Ohio Northern University and South Texas College; she has spent 17 years as a supervisor of social workers. A former member of the leftish Socialist Labor Party, she claims to have forsaken Christianity at 13, after reading the Bible; since then, reason has been her only faith, and she boasts: "Nobody has ever beaten me in an argument...
MOST black Africans only learned to write down their songs and tales in the past hundred years, but they are heirs to centuries of oral literature. In their search for an African identity, the continent's contemporary poets-many of them leading politicians-today have forsaken their mission-school Golden Treasury to rediscover the pagan rhymes and rhythms that enlivened tribal life long before the white man came. Says Léopold Sédar Senghor, who is black Africa's most distinguished poet as well as President of Senegal: "Poetry must find its way back...
Candy's sweet success is the handiwork of the Fumagalli brothers-Niso, 55; Enzo, 48; and Peppino, 34-who took over their father's forsaken electrical apparatus factory after the war and made Candy an Italian household word with hard-selling sales and advertising campaigns. The Fumagallis originally intended to make dishwashers, but Enzo had been impressed by the popularity of washing machines in the U.S. while a prisoner of war in California. He named the company after a once-popular U.S. song that begins: "Candy, I call my sugar candy." Last year Candy took...
Those who make assertions of this nature are, in effect, denying a fundamental principle of this country: the President's position as spokesman for and protector of the people of the U.S. Even the most inept of our leaders have not forsaken this trust...